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during the early summer of 1906. The larv;e and pupcC were kept in 

 a cool damp cellar and despite the fact that in this vicinity there is 

 l)ut one generation a year, the two pup?e ohtained produced a male 

 hobomok and the aberrant female pocahontas (named above) during 

 September of the same season. The male, which emerged on Sep- 

 tember II. is slightly undersized and somewhat darker than average 

 specimens of hobomok (Harris). Male in author's collection. 



Euphyes conspicua (Edwards). 



[One male and two females, all in fresh condition, Malaga, 

 Gloucester Co.. N. J., July 17, 191 7.] 



Megistias fusca (Grote and Robinson). 



[One old specimen taken at Cape May Court House, N. J., July 

 17. 1917.] 



Prenes panoquin (Scudder). 



[One specimen collected at Palermo. Cape May Co., N. T., and 

 another at Cape May Court House, N. J., July 17, 191 7.] 



Samia cecropia (Linne). 



On September 7. 1916. at Washington Heights. New "S'ork City, 

 a nearly full-grown cecropia larva was noticed on a wild cherry bush 

 with a Tachinid fly, Winthcmia quadripnsiulafa (Fabricius)."' sitting 

 near by. The fly assumed a position on a leaf at right angles to the 

 larva, its head not quite touching it. It then bent its posterior abdominal 

 segments downward and forward and extended its exceedingly long 

 flexible ovipositor beneath its abdomen, forward and upward to the 

 level of the top of its head, or slightly higher and thence to the dorsal 

 region of the posterior segments of the larva, in this instance, and 

 dejwsited the t^^. A number of eggs w^ere thus laid before cap- 

 turing the fly. Previously to the above observation, a fly, probably 

 this one, had deposited eggs on the lateral regions of the anterior 

 segments. The larva was well covered with eggs, numerous old 

 ones having hatched, black spots showing on the larva at the ends of 

 the eggs where the Tachinid larvae had bored into the caterpillar. 



Three eggs laid this date about 12 o'clock noon, were left on the 



5 Determined by Dr. J. Bequaert. 



